Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18, 1978)
is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey
Potter on The WB television teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003.
Her movie roles have ranged from art house films such as The Ice Storm to thrillers such as Abandon to blockbusters such as Batman Begins.
In early 2005, Holmes began a highly publicized relationship with actor Tom Cruise. In June, two months after they first met, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruisewere
engaged. Their relationship made Holmes the subject of international
media attention, much of it negative, including speculation the
relationship was a publicity stunt to promote the couple's films.Katie Holmes, who was brought up as a Roman Catholic, joined the Church of Scientology shortly after the couple began dating. On April 18, 2006, Holmes gave birth to their daughter, Suri. On November 18, 2006, she and Cruise married in Italy.
Early life
Katie Holmes was
born in Toledo, Ohio, the youngest in a family of five children (four
daughters, one son) of Kathleen A. (née Stothers), a homemaker and a
philanthropist, and Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr. (born 1945), an attorney
specializing in divorces. She lived in the Corey Woods section of
Sylvania Township, Lucas County, in a brick 1862 Italianate-style
home.Her siblings are Tamera (born c. 1968), Holly Ann (born 1969),
Martin Joseph, Jr. (born 1970), who works as a lawyer in Ohio, and Nancy
Kay (Blaylock), a teacher (born c. 1975).
Katie Holmes,
baptized a Roman Catholic, attended Christ the King Church and parochial
schools in Toledo. Her high school was the all-female Notre Dame
Academy, her mother's alma mater, where Katie Holmeswas a 4.0
student. At St. John's Jesuit, a nearby all-male high school, she
appeared in school musicals, playing a waiter in Hello, Dolly! and Lola
in Damn Yankees. She scored 1310 out of 1600 on her SAT and was accepted to Columbia University (and attended for a summer session); her father wanted her to be a doctor. Katie Holmes loved reading: "I never feel lonely in a bookstore", she said.
A British writer profiling her in 2003 said, "The way
Katie Holmes approached
her unusual education was as American as apple pie: she went to
cheerleading practice, got straight A grades, and made a pledge that she
would remain a virgin until marriage." Holmes told her hometown paper
The Blade that the three words best describing herself were "honest, determined, and imaginative."
At
age fourteen she began classes at a modeling school in Toledo run by
Margaret O'Brien, who took her to IMTA, the International Modeling and
Talent Association Competition held in New York City in 1996. There she
found an agent after performing a monologue from To Kill a Mockingbird.
An audition tape was sent to the casting director for the 1997 film The
Ice Storm, directed by Ang Lee. She was cast in the role of Libbets
Casey, in the film which starred Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. Ang
Lee told The Blade, "
Katie Holmes was cast because she had the
perfect amount of innocence and worldliness that we needed for Libbets. I
was really taken by her wide open eyes. She really is a beautiful girl
but there is also a lot of intelligence there and it shows.
Early workIn
January 1997, Holmes went to Los Angeles for pilot season, when
producers cast and shoot new programs in the hopes of securing a spot on
a network
schedule. The Blade reported she was offered the lead in
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
but she turned it down. Columbia Tri-Star Television, producer of a new
show created by screenwriter Kevin Williamson, asked her to come to Los
Angeles to audition, but there was a conflict with her schedule. "I was doing my school play, Damn Yankees.
And I was playing Lola. I even got to wear the feather boa. I thought,
'There is no way I'm not playing Lola to go audition for some network. I
couldn't let my school down. We had already sold a lot of
tickets. So I told Kevin and The WB, 'I'm sorry. I just can't meet with you this week. I've got other commitments.'"
The producers permitted her to audition on videotape.
Katie Holmes read
for the part of Joey Potter, the tomboy best friend of the title
character Dawson, on a videotape shot in her basement, her mother
reading Dawson's lines. The
Hollywood
Reporter claimed the story of Holmes's audition "has become the stuff
of legend" and "no one even thought that it was weird that one of the
female leads would audition via Federal Express."
Katie Holmes won
the part. Paul Stupin, executive producer of the show, said his first
reaction on seeing her audition tape was "That's Joey Potter!" Creator
and executive producer Kevin Williamson said Holmes has a "unique
combination of talent, beauty and skill that makes Hollywood come calling. But that's just the beginning.
A British writer profiling her in 2003 said, "The way
Katie Holmes approached
her unusual education was as American as apple pie: she went to
cheerleading practice, got straight A grades, and made a pledge that she
would remain a virgin until marriage." Holmes told her hometown paper The Blade that the three words best describing herself were "honest, determined, and imaginative."
At
age fourteen she began classes at a modeling school in Toledo run by
Margaret O'Brien, who took her to IMTA, the International Modeling and
Talent Association Competition held in New York City in 1996. There she
found an agent after performing a monologue from To Kill a Mockingbird.
An audition tape was sent to the casting director for the 1997 film The
Ice Storm, directed by Ang Lee. She was cast in the role of Libbets
Casey, in the film which starred Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. Ang
Lee told The Blade, "Katie was cast because she had the perfect amount
of innocence and worldliness that we needed for Libbets. I was really
taken by her wide open eyes. She really is a beautiful girl but there is
also a lot of intelligence there and it shows.
In January 1997,
Katie Holmes went to Los Angeles for pilot season, when producers cast and shoot new programs in the hopes of securing a spot on a network schedule. The Blade reported she was offered the lead in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
but she turned it down. Columbia Tri-Star Television, producer of a new
show created by screenwriter Kevin Williamson, asked her to come to Los
Angeles to audition, but there was a conflict with her schedule. "I was doing my school play, Damn Yankees.
And I was playing Lola. I even got to wear the feather boa. I thought,
'There is no way I'm not playing Lola to go audition for some network. I
couldn't let my school down. We had already sold a lot of tickets. So I told Kevin and The WB, 'I'm sorry. I just can't meet with you this week. I've got other commitments.'"
The
producers permitted her to audition on videotape. Holmes read for the
part of Joey Potter, the tomboy best friend of the title character
Dawson, on a videotape shot in her basement, her mother reading Dawson's
lines. The Hollywood Reporter claimed the story of
Katie Holmes's audition
"has become the stuff of legend" and "no one even thought that it was
weird that one of the female leads would audition via Federal Express."
Katie Holmes won
the part. Paul Stupin, executive producer of the show, said his first
reaction on seeing her audition tape was "That's Joey Potter!" Creator
and executive producer Kevin Williamson said Holmes has a "unique
combination of talent, beauty and skill that makes Hollywood come calling. But that's just the beginning.
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